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2023: The Year of Agroecolgy (again)

2023: The Year of Agroecolgy (again)

As a citizen of Earth who reads the news, I feel compelled to raise my voice and declare 2023 to be The Year of Agroecology. Once again. Twelve months ago I declared 2022 to be The Year, but it’s plain that the global vision of agroecology and the actions to make it real are all the more imperative now.Considering the state of the food world, I have not the patience to wait for some government or…

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Literary Lights and ChatGPT shine on Deep Agroecology

Thanks to the enterprise and good graces of the New Mexico Book Association (NMBA), I’ve been invited to a reception Celebrating New Mexico Writers at the convention center in our stucco-studded capital city. The New Mexico Writers’ Reception is an opening event for the Santa Fe International Literary Festival. My book Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future is what secured the…

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Literary Lights and ChatGPT shine on Deep Agroecology

Thanks to the enterprise and good graces of the New Mexico Book Association (NMBA), I’ve been invited to a reception Celebrating New Mexico Writers at the convention center in our stucco-studded capital city. The New Mexico Writers’ Reception is an opening event for the Santa Fe International Literary Festival. My book Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future is what secured the…

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Flowing into 2023

My wife Elizabeth treated me to a movie for my birthday just before 2022 came to a close: three hours of the new Avatar film in 3-D at an I-Max theater. Great beauty we beheld in The Way of Water. Although I have to say that as is true for me with most modern adventure films I find the endless battles to be tedious at best, deranging at worst. More emphasis on story in 2023, I say to Hollywood,…

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Our Main Chance: Agroecology

Our Main Chance: Agroecology

The phrase main chance generally refers to the most advantageous prospect available, the opportunity for the greatest progress or gain in any given set of circumstances. I use the phrase now in regard to our tempestuous environmental, climatological, social, and spiritual circumstances. In a historical context, playwright William Shakespeare employed the phrase main chance memorably in a speech…

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For the Beauty of the Earth and Our Lives.

For the Beauty of the Earth and Our Lives.

Dear Readers, Agroecology remains my passion. I continue to see it as our main chance to reckon with all of the global challenges now so fiercely active in environmental, social, and spiritual realms. Yet I’ve had little time over the last year to write directly on the subjects of our farms, our food, and our future. For many months my work life has been focused solely on writing the biography of…

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CONSOLIDATION – It’s time to unify my diverse works in one place. Thus, as of this date I am including my deep agroecology blog under the umbrella of these pages, my main Chiron Communications website. Old posts will remain online at deepagroecology.net as an archive. All new posts on agroecology and related themes will be published here.  

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Farms and food riled by a host of factors and forces

Farms and food riled by a host of factors and forces

Colossal forces—social, financial, technical, environmental, governmental, and climatological—are whirling emphatically this year, directly engaging, disengaging, and impacting our farms and food. Each human being on Earth has a stake in how it all settles out. It’s that basic. Among the forces: climate extremes, environmental breakdowns, food security threats, the Covid-19 pandemic, all…

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